Farlesthorpe / Earlsthorpe / Faraldesthorpe / Farlsthorpe / Haroldestrop

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Results: 4 records

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the 19thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by John Blakeston [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606656] [accessed 4 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the 19thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by John Blakeston [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606641] [accessed 4 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the altered 15thC font in the 19thC church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by John Blakeston [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606647] [accessed 4 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the stem and lower base said to be 15thC, perhaps the plinth as well; the basin and the cover are modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2013, in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 4 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 21862FAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Main St, Farlesthorpe, Alford LN13 9PH, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1196, E of the A1028, 3 km SE of Alford, 12 km NE of Spilsby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lincoln

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century [base only?] [composite font], Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Redmore, Website Editor of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, for the photograph of this font

Church Notes: earlier church [15thC?] re-built 1800

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry foun for Farlesthorpe in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4753274024] notes: "Parish church. c.1800, restored 1881, chancel rebuilt 1912, 1953 restoration. [...] All fittings are Cl9, apart from the C15 octagonal font with plain stem, quatrefoils with rosettes to the sides of the bowl." The entry for this font in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 4 November 2018] notes: "Farlesthorpe, St Andrew, font. Of unknown origin, but presumably the base of the font pre-dates the present church (1800)?"; their photograph shows clearly that the basin and cover are modern, whereas the stem, lower base and probably the plinth as well are original.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 313936 5902979

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal wooden cover with metal ring handle ; modern